[Streaming]: Leon Vynehall – “Movements (Chapter III)”

Two years after Rojus (Designed To Dance), British producer and DJ Leon Vynehall has announced the release of a new album. Nothing Is Still is out on June 15th via Ninja Tune. It is an album dedicated to Vynehall’s grandparents. Emigrating from a leafy south east U.K. to New York City in the 1960s, their seven-day journey via boat from Southampton to Brooklyn, and the stories that followed, have only truly come to light upon the passing of his grandfather four years ago.

“I knew they had lived in the U.S. and heard many anecdotes, but it was only after Pops died and my Nan presented these polaroids of their time there; of her waitressing at the New York Mayor’s Ball in ’66, or Pops with horses on a ranch in Arizona, that she delved deeper into their story, and I started to become overtly inquisitive about it” Vynehall says, following in depth conversations with his Nan to find out as much as he could about this part of his family history that was – in a way that easily resonates with us all – seemingly hidden in plain sight. “I felt the need to document this period for her, and it all just sort of snowballed from there.”

We already shared “Envelopes”; “Movements (Chapter III)” is a new excerpt. Listen below.